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waste corner about the fields may be planted with the tubers in April or 

 May ; the same treatment given to them as you would give to potatoes, 

 and you will have a good crop. On the approach of a storm, take up a 

 quantity of the roots, and put them down where you wish hares to fre- 

 quent ; in a few nights you will find them all eaten up ; frost does not hurt 

 them. Hares also greedily eat salsafy (Tragopogon major), French sorrel 

 (i?umex scutatus), and common parsley (yi'pium Petroselinum). All these 

 plants may be raised to perfection in a few months. Sow in April. I see 

 by your Magazine that you have few correspondents in this quarter : I 

 intend to send you some notices after this ; and, should they be of no use 

 to you, still they are improving me. — X. Y. Z. Near Renfrew, Feb. 16. 



We thank this very intelligent correspondent for the communication sent 

 with the above for our Magazine of Natural History, and shall be most 

 happy to hear from him frequently. We wish he would describe the gar- 

 dens in his neighbourhood. — Cond. 



Durability of Red Cedar Posts. — A new cedar gate-post was taken up in 

 Nov., 1822, by Mr. William Hughes of Southwark, which, it was ascer- 

 tained by a deed, had been put down ninety years before. It had marks of 

 four sets of iron hooks being eaten oft" by time, and nail-holes without 

 number, yet the post was fit to be put down again. Mr. Hughes was 

 determined to mark the place to which he may remove it, so that his 

 grand-children may tell future generations its age. (^Foukon^s American 

 Advertiser, Nov. 21. 1829.)— J^M. Philadelphia, Aug., 1830. 



Knoiulcs's Ho])-pole Draiuer by Lever and Fulcrum is an invention that 

 may be very easily understood. Its use is to draw the poles perpendicu- 

 larly, and thus to avoid breaking them, as well as to prevent the hops from 

 beine; bruised. — P. Jan. 1831. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



Fpjnal Hats for Lady Gardeners. — These may now be obtained at 

 Mr. Charlwood's, as well as the skewers elsewhere (p. 234.) recom- 

 mended. Both these articles being manufactured by the chiklren of poor 

 labourers in Sussex, under the direction of a benevolent family of ladies, 

 are, independently of their real utility, deserving of every patronage on 

 the score of charity. — Cond. 



South of Fiiglatid Botanic Garden, — Sir, I gave notice, two years since, 

 in the provincial papers, of my intention to establish a botanic garden on an 

 extensive scale. This being one of the most southern parts of the island, 

 and the extent of land I shall devote to the purpose being considerable, 

 I trust will sanction the latitude I take in naming it the " South of 

 England Botanic Garden." There is nothing of the kind in this part of 

 the country, if we except, indeed, the Spa Tea Gardens, occupied by Mr. 

 Page, which are designated by him the Spa Botanic Gardens, and to which 

 pereons subscribe ten sliillings annually to drink the water, &c. To call 

 this ground a botanic garden, however, appears to me a burlesque on the 

 science, it being in extent only GO ft. long by 50 ft. wide, a few feet more 

 or less. I intend my garden shall be open to public inspection gratis, under 

 certain regulations, and shall be most happy to inform you of its progress. 

 Having had the care for several years of the London Botanic Garden, 

 Sloane Street, some eighteen or twenty years since, when it was the pro- 

 perty of Messrs. Curtis and Salisbury ; and having served an apprentice- 

 ship in the highly respectable firm of Whitley, Brames, and Milne, you 

 will, I am sure, give nic credit for know ing something about the routine of 



